Crock pot soup recipes for easy dinners during your busy week.
Busy weeknights got you scrambling for dinner? Try one of these 10 easy crock pot soups, perfect for busy weeknight meals! Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Basil Tortellini Soup This is a delicious, classic homemade tomato soup recipe. It will take you about 15 minutes to prepare this recipe in the morning before you…
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How to can cinnamon pears. Adding red hots to canned pears gives fresh pears a nice cinnamon twist.
Canning Cinnamon Pears Ever wondered how to can cinnamon pears? I had never heard of them before, until just recently. This year I was able to get my hands on some free pears, so I decided to can some. My cousin mentioned that she makes “cinnamon pears”. I was intrigued…sounds delicious! It turns…
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Learn how to make homemade chokecherry jelly with this traditional canning recipe. Sweet, tart, and packed with wild fruit flavor, chokecherry jelly is a delicious way to preserve a seasonal harvest. Perfect for toast, biscuits, and gift giving.
If you have ever seen chokecherries, then you know that they are tiny pint sized cherries that are definitely too tart to eat off the tree. They make a great jelly or jam. Our mothers and grandmothers often used chokecherries for canning chokecherry jelly in the old days. Chokecherry jelly is now one of…
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Easy recipe for canning tomato soup, just like Campbell's condensed cream of tomato soup!
Canning tomato soup is easy when you have a good recipe. I’ve tried some different recipes, and this one is definitely the best. If you love Campbell’s condensed cream of tomato soup, then this would definitely be its copycat recipe. This is one of my 6 favorite soup canning recipes for food storage. This tomato…
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It's green bean season! Learn how to freeze the green beans from your garden with these easy step-by-step instructions.
Did you ever wonder how to freeze green beans? I am an avid canner, but I also like to freeze some fruits and vegetables, depending on what I am going to use them for. Canned green beans are good, but they are really soft like canned green beans from the store. Some of my family…
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